Description

John Chesser 1883 as offices of R & R Clark's printing works. Symmetrical neo-Jacobean set back from street on elevated front garden area, 2-storey, coursers with ashlar dressings. Central block 5-bay gabled with arcaded parapet and paired octagonal shaft end stacks, centre bay slightly advanced and ashlar-faced with curvilinear strapwork gable, rich round-arched doorpiece set in 3-tier fluted and filleted pilasters with balcony over at scroll-pedimented 1st floor bipartite; outer bays have crenellated 3-light ground floor bows and 1st floor bipartites, intermediate bays single-light, architraved with cornice at ground floor; wings lower and slightly recessed, 3-window links (bipartites at ground floor, single lights with rich alternating

curvilinear and triangular dormer heads at 1st) to gabled ends with shallow crenellated ground floor tripartites and 1st floor bipartites, elaborately finialled skews. Slated roofs. Front steps are flanked by elaborate dies with cast iron lamp standards bearing octagonal engraved glass lanterns. Internally reconstructed 1977/8.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793853

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)